Recipes - Meat

Moroccan Harira Soup

Categories | Meat, Recipes, Soups, Starters

This deliciouus fortifying soup is just what you need to get you through cold winter days.  Lamb forequarter chops are good value, but you need to trim them of any fat and sinew – if you have time, the bones can be used to make stock  which can be used in the soup.
Place the lamb [...]

Nonna’s Polpettine (Small meatballs)

One of the recipes Justine Schofield (a finalist in the first MasterChef series) will be demonstrating next Saturday at the Campsie Food Festival.
To make the sauce: heat the oil in a large heavy based saucepan. On medium low heat fry the onion, garlic and anchovies until soft. Add the tomatoes and bay leaves and soften [...]

Ballymaloe Irish Stew

Categories | Dinner, Meat, Recipes

Nestled in the rolling green fields of East Cork is Ballymaloe, a picturesque country house and farm and cookery school owned by the Allen family. Cork County has an abundance of Saint Patrick’s festivities, and Ballymaloe plays an integral role in those traditions.  Darina Allen, Chef of the Ballymaloe Cookery School, says their traditional family [...]

Roast Rack of Veal

Categories | Dinner, Meat, Recipes

Adapated from a recipe by Tetsuya (Tetsuya’s, Sydney), this slow roast is a marvellous way to cook veal as it can often dry out using conventional roasting temperatures.

Weeping Lamb (L’agneau qui pleure)

Categories | Main Courses, Meat, Recipes

The French describe this method of slow-roasting lamb as “weeping” because the drippings from the meat “weep” into the potatoes underneath. They use a leg of lamb and cook it for up to three hours – if you decide to use the leg, double the quantity of vegetables.